I had planned on waiting until the NFL playoffs to take my first $2/$5 shot, but success in the Challenge has preempted this, so I will be playing $2/$5 for the Challenge next week, likely Friday or Saturday.
I have my eye on Red Rock Casino for this. It's in a wealthier neighborhood than is the Orleans, so I've come up with a hypothesis that Red Rock may have more $1K+ stack punters on any given weekend night.
Why not Aria or Bellagio, since I've already given my opinion that on average the locals are better players than the tourists? The locals seem to have a higher variance in ability, so that it's actually more likely to find a Live One at a locals table, blithely doing his thing while everyone else sits with their forks and knives out and waits for the plate to be passed their way.
Related to this is seeing a player going on monkey tilt, which is a rare event, so I may not have enough hours in yet to make this assertion, but it seems to me that when a local goes on tilt, he or she does it in a more thoroughgoing and grandiose fashion than does a tourist.
Today, a local around my age lost a two outer to an OMC on the river and instantly went from being a fun Live One to being a play-money style no-look spewape. I was in position to pick up $400 from him, turning a losing session for me into a winner.
Orleans:4 hours: (Bad Beat Jackpot room share $217):
+$600
Three Stacks $600-$60,000 Challenge:$1/$3 Level:
Link to Challenge Rules
Starting bankroll: $600
Last bankroll: $1375
Challenge day progress:$+600
Current bankroll: $1975
Bankroll needed for $2/$5: $1875 - Level Cleared
Next week: $2/$5 starting with a $1600 bankroll ($375 will be taken out for a vig, see the challenge rules (or don't, as they are overly complicated.))